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Racism of the soul eclipses all other bigotry, born from the heights of vainglory where one presumes their soul innately superior to others. This arrogance shatters human dignity, distorts the moral order, and enthrones the self on a false pedestal. It relentlessly seeks to crush lesser souls under the weight of its conceit.
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Please pray for my dear friend, who is just 33 and facing a very sudden and serious heart issue. He’s an incredible Catholic man, loved and respected by everyone who knows him. He has a wife and two very young children. Please pray for his healing, for answers, and for peace for his family.
He is a wonderful person and if you knew him you'd agree.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Haddie went through her four-hour open-heart surgery extremely well. We are with her now in the cardiac ICU. They have a cardiologist standing by while she recovers tonight, as well as a team of nurses who are literally watching her every second.
Everyone keeps saying she has done “perfect” so far. They’re going to remove her breathing tube tomorrow, and they’re keeping her sedated while it remains in place.
We crossed two huge hurdles already: they were able to restart her heart after surgery, and when they did, her rhythm was perfect. Apparently, it is possible for the heart to “wake up” with a bad rhythm, in which case a pacemaker could be required. We are thrilled that this risk now appears to have largely passed.
Over the next few days, we expect them to gradually remove her supports, restart feeds, and move her from the cardiac ICU toward going home.
We’ve been very impressed by the level of care she has received. Steph’s mom is watching the other seven children at home so that we can focus on Haddie.
Thank you all for your prayers. Keep them coming—we have another five days of recovery in the hospital.
You began by calling Christ on the Cross “Rome’s victory.” I answered with St. Paul’s “We preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor 1:23), then explained the Passover, the Eucharist, and why we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes (1 Cor 11:26). Rome intended to kill Him. Christ freely offered the sacrifice that redeemed us. You have yet to address that distinction.
The empty tomb proclaims His Resurrection. I quoted the Catechism on the Cross and Resurrection together (CCC 571), so “Y’know He’s alive now” is a straw man. His Ascension and promised return do not make His Passion disposable. The living Christ told us, “Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19). The Eucharist makes present the sacrifice He offered once for all (CCC 1367). If remembering His death dishonours Him, your objection reaches His own command.
Nor does “graven image” answer how sacred images work. Christ is “the image of the invisible God” (Col 1:15). Honour given to an image passes to its prototype; our regard does not terminate in the material (CCC 2132). The crucifix directs us to Christ, not to wood, paint, or an assertion that He remains dead. And when John saw Him in heaven, he saw “a Lamb standing as it were slain” (Rev 5:6). The Lamb is alive, yet His sacrifice remains visible.
Your tortured friend photograph is a false analogy: it strips Christ’s freely offered sacrifice of its purpose and treats a sacred image as a humiliating snapshot. Inferring from the crucifix that I do not love Christ is a non sequitur. Claiming that I “don’t know Christ” is an ad hominem. I called your treatment of the Passion cartoonish because you reduced the act of redemption to “naked” and “sprawled out.” You can object to that remark, but it does not rescue your argument.
You asked what Jesus on the Cross represents. I gave you Holy Writ and the Eucharist. Answer those, rather than telling me how I feel about Christ.
Illiterate means I can’t read. Maybe I lack reading comprehension and or you simply lack the ability to use words properly.
If your friend got tortured and hung to death, would you share pictures of it with people?
That means you don’t consider Jesus a friend. You don’t actually care.
We’re having a serious conversation and you bring up a cartoon.. this is what I meant by the inability to have a mature conversation.
You're illiterate.
Stop treating Christ as some South Park character.
Is this a language barrier or do you lack the mental faculties to behave like a grownup?
How does an empty tomb not represent Christ crucified?
Why do you want to carry around a graven image of your tortured friend hanging naked. Y’know He’s alive now, correct? In heaven when John seen a lamb slain, was it displayed nude, sprawled out?
You don’t know Christ. You know doctrine.
If this was someone you actually cared about you wouldn’t want people sharing a naked picture of their abused body.
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Thousands of Catholics worship Jesus at the historic beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in St. Louis.
